POTATO CROP OF THE WORLfX
-Mm ss United atsteaw
TW abawdanca and cheapness of
A rtcaa potato this asaaoa land coa
sts rah It Interest to tb culture and
sontrlbatlon of those Important and
mill artlcis of diet Tb world'
averse annual crop for many year
has Bcoa eatlmatsd by experts, aided
by ofletal statistics, at over 8,000.000,-
000. 000 bushels, exceed lnf the average
aaanai crop of fraln by fully 750,000,
800 boabsls. la volum of production
tb United State tand fifth on a llat
sf couatrlea which are the largest
prsdnesra, and whoa avarage annual
crops are estimated In bushel aa fol
low: Germany, 74,000.000; Russia,
121,000,000; Franc. 8aD.000.000; Ana
Ma, 286.000,000; United Bute.
300,000,000. The average annual
receipt of potatoea In thl
city are about 200,000 barrel,
each barrel containing from two and a
half to two and three-quarters bushel,
or a total of from 5,000,000 to 5,900,000
buahela. Of thl great supply an aver
age quantity of about 200,000 barrel 1
exported to the Weat Indie, the Har
as ataamahtpe each carrying- from
1,000 to 2,900 barrel a trip, or about
6,000 barrela weekly, learing about
1,740 barrela for conaumption in and
around the metro poll.
The local supply of potatoes 1 re
wired from different source at differ
ent time of the year. The new Ber
muda crop begin to arrlre about Feb.
1, and come In at an arerage weekly
rate of about 2JS00 barrels, which, un
der ordinary condition, are usually
sold for from $9 to $7 a barrel at whole
sale. The Florida crop, which is com
paratlTely small, begin to arrive about
April 1, and 1 usually sold at about
the same price a are received for the
Bermuda pot toe. A month or two
later Georgia potatoea begin to arrive
from Savannah, and are received at the
rata of about 10,000 barrel a week,
their wholesale price generally ranging
from S3 to $6 a barrel Supplies come
from seaboard cltle further north a
the year advance till the latter part
of July, after which the metropolitan
market la mainly aupplled by Long
Island and New Jersey, whose early
crop are dug In July and August, and
late crops In September. There are usu
ally limited supplies alao received from
Canada and Scotland, but on account of
the present enormoua domestic crop the
Importation from those places thl
year will be Insignificant. A small sup
ply I generally receired late in Decem
ber from Bermuda, but It la too Insig
nificant to have any appreciable effect
on the market
There are only ten State In the Union
which extenalvely produce potatoes
for shipment to market beyond their
wn border. They are Maine. Ver
mont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl
vania, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Virginia. Tennessee
say soon be added to thl lint, a her
product la steadily and rapidly increaa
Ing, and among her potato plantations
there Is a single one which ha over
WOO acres under cultivation. New
Tork Tribune.
Took the Hint.
Clapp waa a shrewd detective and a
moat excellent Judge of human nature.
He could tell a rogue as far off as he
could a black man. and he never made
mistake.
.' An Instance of hi readlne In read
ing character occurred one morning In
Court A caae of considerable Interest
waa being tried, and the gallery was
crowded with spectator.
a Two or three reporters were sitting
near the door when Clapp, stooping
over, whispered:
"Don't all look at once, but please
observe that nice-looking man with
the white cravat In the front seat of
the gallery In the middle."
We looked.
"Now," continued Clapp, "I'll send
that man flying out of court on the
double-quick In les than five minutes,
nor will I leave the room or send him
a message."
While we were wondering how the
feat waa to be accomplished, the vet
eran quickly beckoned to a police offi
cer, and, taking a pair of handcuff
from hi pocket, directed the officer
atteatio to the party In the gallery,
and apparently gave him some direc
tion. The man made hi way toward the
door, and at the same inatant the gen
tleman with the white cravat bolted
lk lightning through the crowd to the
door and disappeared.
"Gentlemen," remarked Clapp. "I
never saw that man before In my life."
Plants Thrive oa a Meat Diet.
It baa been proven time and again
that the so-called "cannibal plants," of
which the Venn flytrap 1 the type, are
inch more healthy when allowed their
regular Insect food than they are when
reared under netting or la any other
ntoaoer which exclude them fiom
their regular meat diet The above Is
aa oddity In Itself, especially when we
consider the fact that there hi a certain
school of botanists which teaches can
nibal plant make no use whatever of
Mat Insert prey raptured by ttieiii. but
It hi nothing compared with the hold
assertion made by Francis Darwin.
flt noted scientific gentleman bravely
Casta the "vegetarian botanists" with
' C assertion that all kinds and classes
cf ()(, whether known aa "meat-
' fJjHf c ant, bear more and heavier
'f eaada when fed on meat than
. CrOa4 avtaa allowed a flesh dirt
twa Um, comprising various
f Oa
uinTerent com moa
0a tot
rejralarty fed
af oam)
, r r-sf wKA vtr aad th
' 3criC3astfwvs4
while tb unfed plants of the aaass
Bomber and original condition bar but
seventy four. Also that the pampered
plant bore 240 sseda to every 100 born
by th plant that ware not given a
chanca to gratify cannibalistic taste.
This la certainly a discovery worthy of
much careful study and extensive ex
periment. -t Lout Republic,
Rasslm
In Russia begging 1 Just a much a
recognised profession a the law or med
icine, and many a skillful beggar ha
a much larger Income at his command
than a lawyer or a doctor. Russian
beggar are organised upon scientific
principle, and, according to a labor
commission report, form regular trade
unions Some of them follow their pro
fession the year round; others only at
stated seasons; other go on begging
expeditions when the weather 1 fine
and live on the spoil when It Is bad.
There are many distinctions of rank
among diem. The Sondogola beggars,
for Instance, who work on the soil for
six months of the year, are socially of
no account whatever; whereas the Ka
louni, who would as soon think of flying
a of working, are quite Important per
sonagesaristocrats of beggardoin, in
fact. The Kalounl call themselves
"collectors," and their chief business
Is to direct the begging operations of
others. As a rule, two Kalounl enter
into partnership and gather around
rhem a little company of assistants
four or five children, and perhap two
adults choaen especially on account of
their Infirmities. Woe be to the one
who goes about with a cheerful air, or
is heard to laugh In public. When the
firm is ready for action, the KaloOnl,
who are often capitalist in their way,
buy a horse and large cart, and set out
in the world. They go hundreds of
mile from their homes, sometimes wan
dering from village to village, from
town to town. In a fairly good district
they will clear aa much a thirty h ti
lings a week a huge sum In Russia,
where thousands of men earn lea than
sixpence a day, and women are paid
for their work about a farthing an hour.
The assistants, who do all rhe begging,
receive their food, the shelter of the
cart, and perhaps a few rag for cloth
ing nothing more. AU that 1 given
to them must be yielded up to their em
ployers, and dire I the punishment
that befalls them if they are detected
keeping back a few kopecks for their
own use.
Speaklita- I p for Old Ireland.
An English gentleman addicted to
field sports arrived In Cork last au
tumn, and engaged a car and driver to
convey him to a village some miles from
the city. On the way the traveler re
marked: "Ought to be a good country for game,
ehr
"Game I it your honor?" wa the
reply. "Shnre. there' oshtns av ItT
"Any snipe?"
"Ay, is there! there' more antpe nor
peelers, an' more peeler nor praties,
an' that's sarin' a good dale."
"Plenty of pheasants and grouse, too,
I suppose?"
"Faith, there's no enpposln' at all
about it; there's millions av 'em so
there lsr
Having proceeded some mile and
not seeing a feather, the Englishman
observed, sarcastically:
"H'm, yes; plenty of small game, but
I don't think there are any phono
graphs In these parts."
"Arrah! don't be talkln'; shure, after
a bit av a frost the whole counthry
side, and more 'speshly the ploughed
lan,' does be swarmln' wld them."
No more questions.
A Bo w-and-Arrow Duel.
Although the silly and wicked cus
tom of dueling I still practiced In Ger
many, Frame, and elsewhere, It has
been extinct in the I'nited Kingdom
for perhaps half a century. The two
fighters generally used swords, ox pis
tols, but there is on record a case in
which two men met In the Meadows at
Edinburgh, on the 10th of February.
1791, to satisfy their "wounded honor"
with bows and arrows. Each combat
ant bad a second, but there was only
one surgeon between the two. After
firing three shot apiece without bit
ting anything In particular excepting
Mother Earth, the two archers parted,
their honor, no doubt, being greatly
the better for the pleasing pastime.
Still, th Scotsmen were shrewd and
canny enough to choose weapon that
gave both of them a very fair chance
of coming out of the encounter un
harmed, whatever might have hap
pened to a mere onlooker or even a
passer-by.
Hulclde of a Waa p.
A short time ago M. Henry, a French
man, being curious to see the effects of
ben sine on a wasp, put some of It under
a glass in which a wasp wa Imprison
ed. The wasp immediately showed
signs of great annoyance and anger,
darting at a piece of paper which had
introduced the benzine Into his cell.
By and by he seems to bare given up
the unequal contest In despair, for he
lay down on his back and, bending up
hi abdomen, planted hi sting twice
into his body and then died. M. Henry
allowed his scientific interest to over
come his humanity so far as to repeat
the experiment with three wasp, only
to And that the ober two did likewise.
He Is therefore of the opinion that
wasps under desperate circumstances
commit suicide.
The Crank.
The word "crank" I frequently used.
Its orlginvmay not be generally known.
Th eranke was one of the rogues and
vagabonds of Hhskspeare's time. It was
tM character name oi one who reigned
ua raiuag aicai
I? Ops aha tb Kskianw Ton.
LatwL PMfr asti laaraad to ansaktb
H M ataaaat aaaMr to
pals as to acqarr raat
FAMED DEAD BEATS.
Msa Who Uvs Dsn th ladastrr sf
Others,
"The fact m this dty swarm with
dishonest persons whole families, I
mean who move from flat to flat with
out payment of rent I am not exag
gerating the least bit when I aay tbit
there are hundred of families In ti l
city of seeming respectability who hav
scarcely paid f 100 a year In rent In th
last Ave years. And they have lived In
very nice apartments, too, apartments
costing anywhere from $50 to S1A0 a
month."
"Why, how in the world I that tuau
aged?" I asked.
"It I very easily done," replied the
real estate man, "or rather It waa very
easily done before wa west side agent
were forced last aummer to combine
for self-protection. But, notwlthatand
ing all our effort, flat are so numer
ous and competition among ownera and
agent 1 so brisk that there Is srlll
plenty of opportunity. After the regu
lar spring renting season is over, say
In midsummer, the owner cf an apart
ment bouse with several flai vacant is.
you know, willing to make conception.
These concessions are not usually In
the way of a reduction of rental, but
consist In giving one or two months'
rent free, say until the regular fall sea
son begins again. The man bent on
beating the agent takes advantage of
these conditions. He picks out two or
more flat and plays the agents against
each other for the best terms obtalua
ble. He does not ask a reduction of
rent, but secures just as long a prelim
inary period rent free as possible.
"He puts on a good front, refers to
several persons who know him in a so
cial way and are free about vouching
for hi respectability, and takes the
apartment He asks for and gets re
ceipt for the rent of the months be
get free and move in, bag in1 bag
gage. All goes well until the time
come for the payment ol the first
month' rent The mooy doe not
come, and the collector nevr finds hi in
at home. His wife make excuses and
assures the agent that u is 'all right'
"So time goes on, and tLo next
month's rent becomes due. The agent
begins to get a little alarmed aoJ
writes some pressing leuer. Thy
are answered In a lofty manner, with
assurance that a soou a ertaln ex
pected remittance eoine In a check will
be sent The agent see the tenant's
references agsln, all of whom ay, uo
doubt In good faith, that they have al
ways found blm a man of his word, and
that he will undoubtedly pay up. An
other month passe, and then tiie agent
1 satisfied he has a beat oa his hands.
He takes legal measures to dispossess
him, which also require time, and It
generally happen that the beat, who
has meantime mad arrangement for
another flat in a dla'ant part of the
town, packs up and moves off before
th summon can be served. And so It
goes on. Occasionally the beat c?i
caught for a little rear. Perhaps be
falls to secure a new flat before he get
ousted from the on ha U llviu? in,
and has to aettle dowa ou a hard cash
basts for a month or two till be can
get a fresh start" Nsw York Herald.
The Engineer Waa Color Blind.
A story 1 told of the late Railroad
Commissioner Stevens, on the occa
sion of the rear-end collision at West
Komervtlle three or four yean ago.
The engineer of the following train
waa careless, and ran by two red
light without a stop. At the hearing
the engineer testified regarding the
lights, and said they wer et at white.
After the other commissioners had
asked the witness all the questions tbey
could think of, Mr. Steven quietly re
quested William, the office boy, to take
a "Baby I'athflnder" railway guide, aud
hang it on .the ventilator outside the
window, but In full view of the witness,
and when his turn came to examine
him, he merely asked the engineer what
color the little book appeared to him.
The engineer squinted at the book,
which was some twenty feet away, and
then said. In a rather uncertain tone
that It was sort of brownish. Thl wa
all that Mr. Stevens had to aay to the
witness, but the cause of th accident
wa pretty conclusively proved to have
been due to color blindness of the en
gineer, for, as everybody knows, all
the "Baby Pathfinders" are bright
red. Boston Traveler.
HI Wife's Qseatlon.
A man Is known by the questions be
ask. And the same I true of a wom
an. Mr. Hayes has a mind that delights
In facta. He collects them as a boy
collect postage stamp. The other
night h laid down hla paper, waa si
lent a moment, and then said:
'That odd."
"What la it?" aaked hla wife.
"Why, here la a man who aaya that
It would take twelve million year to
pump the sea dry at the rate of a
thousand gallona a second."
The wife sat thinking the matter
over. Then she said:
"Where would .they pot all the
water?"
A Mulberry' Growth.
In the year 1KJ4 Captain A. 8. Allen,
then a boy on his father' farm near
Zebulon, Ga., aturk a mulberry sprout
In rhe ground. At that tin the sprout
waa not larger than a lead pencil, and
had been used by tb boy as an ox
"gad." To-day It la a tree almost nine
teen feet In circumference at a distance
of two feet from the ground, and la said
to be the largest mulberry tree In
Georgia. '
Bacon Doc that young man who I
payla attention to your daughter
Isav at a aaaaaaablo boar at Bight?
Efbsrt Yss; I hav as reason to kick.
xoahsfs
Krsa a dead sack can claim that as
diso gams.
DCMRT OBTRIOH FARMS.
Bswrta tas (Most Mrds Aasoaa; the
Ba4 of askawm.
A wrltsr la La Revu Sdsntlflque
au-geta that the French Sahara, upon
ths southern edga of Algeria, may be
profitably used for ths breeding of os
triches. The Barbary ostrich wa once
greatly prised for Its plumage, and the
ostrich feather houses of Pari made
. their reputation by tb curling of these
' plume. The wild Barbary ostrich Is
nearly extinct, so that there are uo more
plume of the sort to be had, and th
Parisian house have lost their mo
nopoly of ostrich feather curling. In
deed, a large portion of the business has
been transferred to other countries, no
tably the United Bute. It Is estimat
ed that the world ue annually about
120,000,000 worth of otrich plumes,
and the writer in La Revue Sclentlfinuo
says that In view of the early addition
of the European dress in the East, es
pecially in China and Japan, the de
mand for this sort of personal adorn
ment Is likely to Increase. He urgm.
too, that the Increased use of oxtrich
feather throughout the civilized r orli?
Is likely to protect other bird of fine
plumage from destruction, and he calls
upon the various societies Interested In
the protection of such birds to aid In
making ostrich plumes more fatilona
ble than ever.
It Is believed that there are now In
south Africa at least 350,000 ostriches,
domesticated and bred for tbelr plum
age, and the writer says that there is
no reason why northern Africa should
not become quite as Important a region
in this industry. The Sahara, it Is ex
plained. Is by no means the exclusively
arid and sandy waste that the popular
imagination makes It The ostrich
cannot exist In the absolutely dry por
tions of the Sahara, but there are large
areas which are not, properly speaking,
oaaes, but they do produce con'Mcrs-
ble vegetation. It is upon thes sronx
that the French people are urged t.
undertake ostrich farming. There have
been two or three unsuccesnful experl
ments to thl end In Algeria upon the
edge of the desert, but they have fail
ed for reasons that would not necessi
tate failure in other parts of the desert.
It is true, the writer admits, that the
Sahara can probably never maintain
a large European population, but Its
notes that it Is the oases and not the
lesa fertile parts of the desert that are
particularly unwholesome for Euro
peans. He believes there is a large field
for Immigration In parts of the French
Sahara that are suitable for ostrich
farming, and urges that the War Dc
partment should aid In establish! ig the
Industry; that the natives could n di
rected by French immigrants snd Paris
could rejeover something like her iiij-
nopoly of the ostrich curling business.
He points out that 30,000 Frenchmen
emigrate to America every year. And
thlnka that some of these might profit
ably be Induced to aettle In nor' icrn
Africa.
We Mhall Fly By and By.
Mr. Hiram Maxim, In an article In
the new number of the North American
Review upon "Birds In Flight and the
Flying Machine," aaya: "I have proved
that It Is possible to make a machine
that ha sufficient power to lift Itself
into the air without the agency of a
balloon, so it now only remains that I
should obtain very much larger prem-
m, unincumbered by trees or build
ings, where I can learn to maneuver
my machine.
'I am only able to devote a small frac
tion of my time to these experiments.
as 1 am, and have been for many years.
the managing director of a great Eng
lish company, but I have put In all the
time that I nad to spare for the last
five years, and the ex peri merits have
led me to believe that the flight of man
Is KMialble even with a steam engine
and boiler."
Mr. Maxim advises young engineers,
If tbey wish to do something to ad
vance the acience of aviation, to turn
their thoughts in the direction of a
petroleum motor. Petroleum may le
obtalued in any quarter of the globe,
and no other substance that we can
obtain on a commercial scale contain
such an enormous quantity of latent
energy.
Women Agrlcsltnrlsts.
A farmer' wife wants to discover the
reason why farmers' boys are provided
with agricultural colleges while girls
are left to get along as test they may.
Why not Introduce co-education In the
agrii-ultural colleges? she asks. In
Minnesota there la a girl' school of
agriculture, whl-h la, so far as known,
the only one In the country. It Is quite
old now and the results are quite satis
factory. The students receive Instruc
tion in cooking, canning, household
chemistry, entomology and sewing.
This plan of educating the women with
the men Is working finely In Denmark,
and if once our women are roused to a
sense of this opportunity such education
might work wonders for our farming
districts.
An Odd Injury.
Russell Daggett, of Iewlston, Me., was
In the United State navy during the
war, and a block fell from a rigging one
day and knocked his right arm out or
place at the shoulder. Since then the
arm has troubled him exceedingly. It
Will slip out of place at the slightest
provocation. One day recently a lot of
boya got Into his orchard and were
tealing his fruit when be saw them
and gave chase. Stepping Into a hole,
he fell, and In falling tried to save hi
weak arm by falling on the other, but
for toe first time In his life the left arm
was thrown out at the shoulder just a
ths other oqe had been. He had It set
and la doing well.
Poor Holland's Wavy.
Hollands navy has grown antiquated.
It Wfl! tak ao.OOO.OOA to put It into
wtorkhir order, bat ths mlalstry doss
aot darn to ask for ths money.
A Cheap bat Dsrable Road.
Avoid all steep grade, and where
aurticlent gravel 1 not near to make a
road that will not get muddy, put In
a pavement of poles, like the old cor
duroy roads, and spike on this by bev
eled edges two steel rails about twelve
Inches wide by oue-fourth luch thick,
for the wheels to niu on, says the Agri
culturist At the present low prices of
steel rails aud spikes, the metal for
such a road would cost but little over
$4 per rod, or less.
Making Bc-tter Boads. '
Capt. Sligii with his chain gsug have
been doing some good work on the pub
lic roads in the Crane Creek sectlou
of the county. The roads there have
been in very bad shape, and Capt.
Sllgh ha been remedying these Imd
places and has put them In splendid
condition. The improvements are evi
dent on every hand. The chaiu gang
system has been a great success In
tills county, aud the prisoners who gen
erally lie up in Jail are made to do work
which has long been needed. Columbia
(8. C.) Register.
Bicycler and Good Hoada.
Advocates of road improvement in
town and country will welcome the
"Federation of Wheelmen of Kansas
City and Jackson County," which was
organised Saturday night for the avow
ed purpose of accomplishing "good
Streets, good roads, proper street sprink
ling and systematized street cleaning."
The movement began with eighty-eight
name subscribed to the constitution
and by-laws, and the list includes some
of the most prominent professional and
business men In the community. With
the wheelmen at work In aid of road
Improvement, success Is lu sight All
men aud women who ride the bicycle,
and the nurnlx-r Is Increasing dally, will
be interested In the movement, for It
means more comfort and enjoyment,
and greater safety. By banding togeth
er the wheel meu can exert an important
Influence In the loc-.il election and make
It possible to choose officials who are
favorable to good roads and well-kept
highways. Kansas City Star.
Why Good Koads Arc Needed.
It is reasonable to predict that the
road Improvement Is destined to spread
with great rapidity In the uext ten
years, and that capital, which hereto
fore built railroads, will now seek In
vestment lu line macadamized roads,
say the New York Post The first ne
cessity for developing a country of the
size of the I'nlied State wa a system
of railroads that would bind together
the widely separated points of Industry
and population, and the construction
of such a stupendous system absorbed
most of the energy and capital of our
financiers. But the country now Is bet
ter supplied with railroads than sny
other on the face of the glotie, and the
limit to the extension of long railroad
lines Is practically reached lu many
part of the country. It Is Impossible
to have every small hamlet and village
connected with the mala railroad lines
by short branches, but the transporta
tion problem cannot be said to Iw solv
ed until every small place and farm of
any size I connected with the great ar
teries of commerce by means of line
macadamized roads. It is this neces
alty for building more and better com
mon roads that makes the question
such a burulng one to-day. The next
generation must devote Itself to the
construction and Improvement of com
mon roads, feeding the railroads with
the product of the great agrimiltural
roglmis.
Favorite Perfumes.
Odors bsve played an Imixu laiit rt
In the world' history. So far Iwk as
the fourteenth century the fad of the
hour was the "Itlrds of Cyprus." They
were aromatic herbs, ground and mold
ed Into the forms of bird, and they
were bi.rned at bamiucts. No descrip
tion of Ihelr composition has come
down through the age, but the supposi
tion I to-day tint they were very much
the aame as the "seraglio pantiles,"
which street venders. disguUcd as
Turk, sell on the highways of conti
nental capitals. Charles V. of France
had among his most treasured iokm-s
Ions, It J well known, a hollow t'olden
pomegranate to hold his perfumes.
Ixul XIV. of France whs given iy the
Queen of Sicily n rosary of iiitik.
Odorous chaplet were quite the fash-
Ion lu those days, and tbey exist even
now in some pari of Spain and In some
quarter of the Orient In the early
part of tb sixteenth csutnry the age
of powder and cosmetics began, and
the use of perfume became widely
spread. During the reign of Iouls XV.
Versailles was known throughout the
world aa "the perfumed court" A cen
tury and a half before that powdered
heads bad come In, and this custom be
came so universal that the cViatume of
deepest mourning and the greatest sor
row was to go unpowdered. The pow
der used waa made ol starch, and It
seldom happened that It was left uu
perfumed. To such an extent was th
art of scsotlDg th person sanied that
It was part of the tmpsrlal program
ernch day to asms ths particular sdor
to b adopted by ths osartWrs and grsai
ladlsB la order that a mUtnr of
might not result The revolution killed,
of course, thl gentle art. but under ths
lnflusno of Josephine It waa glvn a
fresh Impetus In directory days, for
the Empress' Creole origin and tempsr
ainent made her jealously and passlnu
atsly devoUftl to every sweet odor that
could bs derlssd. (Miemlstry ha ad
vanced so far that nowaday scsnt
can be made without flower quit as
well as with them, snd at much less
expense. Still, however, in ltMiminla
and In Asia Minor, tb world-famed
attar of russa continue to be made, a
litre (approximately a quart) coaling
three thousand franca (six hundred dol
lar) at Constantinople. There I an
Imitation of thl essence In distillation
from the geranium that are cultivated
in immense fields In Algeria, but Its
puriouanea can be easily detected.
Lisbon.
I saw very few miserable people; beg
gar were not at all numerous; In a
week I was only asked twice for alma.
One constantly hears that Lisbon is
dirty, and as full of foul odor as Colo
ridge's cologne. I did not flud It so, and
the bright sunshine and the line color
of the house might well compensate
for some drawtmcka. The bouses of
this regular town are white, and palo
jellow, and fine worn-out pink, with
narrow, grecn-palnteri verandas, which
soon lose crudeneisf In the Intense light
The window of the larger block are
numerous, and set in long, regular lines;
the street. If narrow, run Into open
square blazing with white, unsolled
monument. All day long the waye ar
full of people, who are fairly but unos
tentatiously polite. They do not stare
one out of countenance, however one
may be dressed. In Antwerp, a man
who objects to being wondered at may
not wear a light suit Lisbon 1 mora
cosmopolitan.
But the beauty of the town of Lhrtwm
Is not added to by the beauty of Its In
habitants. The women are curiously
the reverse of lovely. Only occasionally
I saw a fa which was attractive by
theodd conjunction of an olive skin and
light gray eye. They do not wear man
tillas. The lower classes use a shawl.
Those who are of the lourgisl class or
alve It differ little from Iondoncr.
The working or loafing men for they
hiugh and loaf and work and chaff and
chiltter at every corner are more dis
tinct in costume, wearing the flat felt
sombrero, with turned up edges, that
one knows from pictures, while th
long coat, which hns dllaced th
cloak, still retain a smack of It in th
way they disregard the sleeves and
hang It from their rtioulder. The man
are decidedly not so ugly as the women,
and vary wonderfully in site, color and
complexion, though a big Portuguese
Is a rarity. The strong point In both
sexes Is their natural gift for wearing
color, and for choosing and blending
or matching tints.
Keeping Track of Oram mere.
lu some houses that send out a great
many drummers there are In use cer
tain peculiar little maps pasted on ths
bottoms of cabinet drawer and con
stantly studied by rhe proprietors and
clerks.
These mans are uauallv nf nn
at a time, and are dotted with peg or
flags of many colors. The flag are tiny
bits of colored cloth, with pin to serv
a staffs.
The K-gs are In reality tacks, whh
the heads covered with colored doth.
These maps show many things to those
who study them. The different colored
markers often represent different drum
mers who are then out on die road. -
As each one writes home where be
has been and where be 1 going next,
hi partdular peg Is tuck upon th
map ai me piace ne names, me rnr-
thest peg away show where that par-'
tlcular man Is at any given time. Or,
again, the pegs or flags may show much
more than that.
Tbey may show what towns bare been
canvassed, what ones are finished, what
one need a second call In the winter,
and which one hare not been vlalted
at all. New York Sun.
More Gold.
tiold strikes of wonderful rli lin.
are reuorted to have been made in
eral parts of British Columbia in the
last weeK or two. At Kiburn, a few
miles from Vancouver, a man boring
for water lu a lot adjoining the Meth
dlst church, struck quantities of flake
gold L'liO feet below the surface Um
galloped Into Westminster and staked
his claim, and returned to prospect
Ills find ran nearly f'Jl an ounce. It Is
believed he struck the bed of an old
river, and prospects are belni? mii.
all over the neighborhood. Itltr i rt If
are reHrted from Cariboo County and
rrom roiitii Kootenai, twetity-flve
mines of excellent promise using
been recently opened in the latter re
gion. Klks In Harness.
A man living In Exeter, Ontario, has
succeeded In breaking a pair of elka to
harness. So accustomed hav tbey be
come to the sights and sounds of dty
life that they are dally driven about
the streets with perfect ess and safety.
In fact, the elk feel less txcltemsot
than tliey cause. They are perfectly
matched In lze. color and weight, and
are driven in a light, but atoutly mads
two-wheeled rrt which tbey draw
about the city and country road at a
brisk pace.
Iuke of Westminster' Property.
The Duke of Westminster hlmaail
lis not auyiMng like an eiact Idas
what hi Iotidou property, if ft watt
realized, would be worth. Hs dots
know, however, that ths amount won hi
be considerably la excess of $40,000,000.
Nsadlass Worry.
"Station master, ar there bo moan
trains to-day? I am loottaj tnt mw
iwhr la-law."
"No, thai art aa mora trains hvdayi
w rest qsk."-rsda Blaetisr.
